More people play it. Not on my Friends List. Not on most. But on COD lists, Black Ops is still probably crazy. This is UU’s, MS decides, IN ESSENCE, how to calculate all. They like feeding you this list, though.

It’s a really easy game to get into. Left trigger aims for you whereas in other shooters like Halo, Gears, and most recently, Battelfield 3, you have to work some more to get your kills (a greater barrier to entry).

Now I don’t support XBLIG anyway because it’s mostly terrible, but Angry Fish at #3 is hilarious.

How long until Rovio gets mad? Not forgetting Angry Birds is a ripoff of Crash the Castle that made Rovio MILLIONS.
Although in fairness, Angry Birds’ aesthetic is different while Angry Fish (otherwise known as Fishcraft) rips it off wholesale.

This and the Minecraft rips continuing to do well, I guess Indie gaming is now about plagiarism?

It’s Crush the Castle actually (unless there’s another dream-level of rippoffing that I’ve missed). And plagiarism isn’t really the right term either. Clones is more accurate, but we’re not talking about a cheap plastic toy or a tin car, we’re talking about software and resources that are most often built from scratch by a team of people every time. There’s no code theft, and there’s no law that says there can’t be a thousand games based on birds or mining blocks.

Truly “original” ideas are most often shunned no matter how good they are (do you think El-Shaddai will ever be on the UU list? Not a hope. It’s not even that original, it’s just delightfully DIFFERENT.) You can’t blame developers and businessmen for targeting what the market says it wants. They’d be crazy not to. That’s how it works. That’s why the industry has sequelitis.

Because Treyearch keeps supporting the game with great DLC. Some people hate it but it keeps the game fresh for those who buy it. Developers take note, this is how you support your online multiplayer games.

Oh give me a break. Black Ops being the worst? Have you ever played Call of Duty 3? That’s just hyperbole on your part. And saying that Gears is an awesome trilogy? It’s just the same old tired video game premise of humans vs. aliens/monsters.

I never claimed Call of Duty’s stories were original. I am responding to what the original poster said that Gears of War is an “awesome” trilogy. I never made the claim that Call of Duty games have “awesome” stories. None of these games (Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears) have great stories.

Neither did I. I said awesome trilogy, not awesome story. If you want awesome stories and narratives actually pushing the medium forward you gotta check out that other camp’s little game-trilogy, Uncharted something😉

I never claimed Call of Duty’s stories were original. I am responding to what the original poster said that Gears of War is an “awesome” trilogy. I never made the claim that Call of Duty games have “awesome” stories. None of these games (Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears) have great stories.

Game Room gets high numbers because its numbers are artificially inflated.

Much like Pinball FX2, each 240 MSP game is a “full version purchased. However, if you buy a 40 MSP mascot, that’s ALSO a “full version purchased.” The Top 20 even sees a 40 MSP single play session counting as a “full version purchased.”

And if you knew how few copies of Bastion (#15) actually sold that week, you’d understand how irrelevant the bottom half of this list is. There’s a reason they don’t post HOW MANY full versions were purchased …

Game Room was an application powered by Atari 80-Games-In-1, Activision Anthology, Intellivision Lives and “new” content from Konami. When they ran out of anything halfway feasible from those compilations and Konami abruptly chose to stop supporting it, they pulled the plug rather than spend any money/effort on it.

Sunset Riders will never be released because Konami said “no” a the last minute. But since Game Room thinks it’s a part of Pack 012 it will continue to advertise it in-game accordingly.

It’s a dead application. You don’t revive a nine-month-old niche product. But it still makes them a few hundred dollars a week “for free,” so they’ll keep it up and running, forever saying “Pack 8 Coming Soon!” – a broken machine still desperately trying to perform its assigned function.

Black Ops still dominating😀
Good to see Gears doing well. Will give Halo a run for its money!

Bad Company in Top 10! Impressive. The Battlefield franchise sure is getting popular on the 360. Can’t wait to see how BF3 does a few months after release. Will BC2 player migrate? Will Black OPs players migrate?